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@wolfweed Dr Who Trivial Pursuit???

Want it!!

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Ed Festival report – great fun – did a bit of a Dr Who tour – caught up with Neil Gaiman at a booksigning – he was just lovely, watched Michael Gambon doing Beckett (with Harriet Jones (aka Penelope Wilton) on voiceover duties (brilliantly)) but missed Neve McIntosh – she slipped under my radar till last day.  Avoided 2 DW themed shows, but caught up with a 3rd one which was fun for fans.

<thinks may have recovered enough from JtF’s dalek relaxation vid above to try to sleep now>

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<waves> @bluesqueakpip @Shazzbot @htpbdet @craig @juniperfish (you still posted missing???) @phaseshift @jimthefish @wolfweed @janetteb @blenkinsopthebrave and everyone (WOW – we’ve sneaked up nearly 100 members since I was last in).

Apologies for absence 🙂 (Me mam’s got the note).

@htpbdet Just adding my best wishes for your speedy recovery, really hope they’ve got your meds sorted out now and you’re ready to come back soon – I need someone to laugh at my jokes 😉

Got  a lot of lurking to do to catch up – yikes! am 2 episodes behind on @jimthefish‘s reboot blog, and many Crazy Captions.  (LOL’d at the Dalek Relaxation vid – after watching half of it  I’m pretty sure I’m probably not a dalek. Solved any lurking oversleeping problems tho). Not to mention needing mega-watching catch up.  Good to be back tho, glad you’ve not been trolled out (knew you’d be better than that).

Any news on poss viewing places in London for the 50th?

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@Shazzbot Train travel – dunno if you’re sorted yet but try http://www.eastcoast.co.uk (it’s what everything else links to) – assuming you’re travelling from York? (if you’re not getting cheap fares showing up from there – try from Edinburgh (it’s stupid but occasionally you get better deal, and the ticket’s still valid). They only do up to 12 wks adv so just gone on sale this week. Mostly under £50 (tho less choice at weekends). Best of luck.

 

 

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@jimthefish – oooh snazzy new avatar, I love it!! (I prefer it when you’re not in full-on Ezquerra(??)-avatar mode, makes me nervous)

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@Shazzbot @htpbdet (and everyone else too of course, inc all the newbies)

Thanks for missing me Shazz, and welcome back (sorry, hugely belated). Am fine, the complete opposite of holiday, with  very little sleep and restricted extra curricular keyboard time, but having a ball 😀

@htpbdet – Don’t you dare let your nephews bully you into watching ANY of #6. You are so far from deserving that, it’s not worth counting. (Your nephews also have a fair bit of credit with me it has to be said 🙂 ) Will be back on here in about a week, so get your keyboard cover and towel ready (that refers to a comment from waaay back, but thank you for the compliment)

 

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@htpbdet

If Shazzbot were here, she would have swooped and moved my unthinking spoiler to Spoilers…

That was exactly what I thought too 🙂

but

I will do penance by watching an episode of Twin Dilemma…

Naah, not this time. But don’t do it again. Just watch out for Bluesqueakpip – if it’s been discussed on spoilers she may not know about it either.  Maybe one of the mods could be substitute Topic Dalek…? (@craig @jimthefish @phaseshift)

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@htpbdet

I seem to have missed the whole invasion of the angry trolls

That’s because Shazzbot, then Craig, was being ultra-vigilant in zapping and mopping up. I caught the very tail end of it and she PM’d me cos she was distressed about it. Don’t know the full details beyond that, but I know most of us don’t see the bits of splattered troll that (very) occasionally decorate these boards.

And I’ll let you off with the Hurt comment which I didn’t know about! <stamps foot and has little glare!> Hmm, yes, all the Christmas and Easter refs that we’ve been picking up since beginning of Series 5, that we put down to being teasers for Christmas and Easter specials/start of series. @bluesqueakpip – the ultimate meta-ref? re your theory about all the numbers, dates etc in 7.2 referring to actual dates, events, people in the programme in real life.  3 Doctors – 3 segments of the show – BG, The Movie (the one we don’t talk about), AG – fuse together to go forward as PC

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@htpbdet Your insider info is fascinating as always.

Personally I think Moff’s misinfo campaigns are the only way forward for the show, when there are so many daleks prepared to spread the least little leaks.  I would be in total joy if he ever managed to trick Levine into tweeting false (planted) info.

And I agree with you re shock regen in 50th, that’d be my guess (I’ve been saying it for a while). Fits with Moffat’s stated plans that the 50th will have a look back but will be mainly about looking forward. What better time to debut a new Dr? Ha! they distract everyone with leaks about zygons, Tennant and a very visible TARDIS stunt in Trafalgar Sq. Meanwhile they could be doing whatever they wanted with Capaldi, as he wasn’t remotely on anyone’s radar back then.

Not to mention all the filming going on for Gatiss’s documentary, which could hide a lot of surreptitious filming of other scenes, I would have thought (and others, esp @bluesqueakpip have mentioned too).

And a holy trinity you think…? Fusing into 1? Very deus ex machina! I could like that, depending how they do it of course!

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@blenkinsopthebrave

I would like to say that none of us would ber here, indulging in a genuine love of Doctor Who, and, importantly, doing it in an environment that is warm, embracing, and gentle, if it wasn’t for @craig.

The new members of the site may not recall that this site was set up so that there was a place that avoided all the worst aspects of the Guardian Doctor Who blog. There was a core of participants on that site that wanted to share their love and enthusiasm for Doctor Who without the poisonous bile and horribly snarky “humour” of many particiapnts who frequented the Guardian blog. You know what I mean, humour which laughed at people.

One person came forward and offered to do it for us: @craig. And he did (and does) a fabulous job.

Absolutely agree, and with all the rest of your post. Spot on and well said. (I  meant to respond publicly before this – my apologies @craig )

Shazz had a difficult time at the weekend with some very snarky posters, which is the main reason she’s away – it hurts having to deal with that stuff and you need a very thick skin. (If you’re lurking, Shazz, we miss you, come back soon). All credit to Keymaster @craig and fellow mods @jimthefish and @phaseshift who make sure most of the cr*p is hidden from the rest of us.

Thanks also to all the newer members who have fitted in seemlessly with the ethos of this little group, your different perspectives are an invaluable contribution and very welcome. To those few who caused one of our key members to delete herself (and you know who you are) – you should be ashamed and I can only hope you either f*ck off or lose the boring snarkiness and join us in bonkers theorising instead – it’s much more fun.

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@pedant

thanks for the vid clips. Absolute corroboration that 5 yo are much more sussed than 12/13yo, haha

Love Linda Lee. She did mention something that made me wonder. Will PC’s sonic have a red setting? (Or was it established that Matt’s had one in Cold War?)

Charlie Cook Love your avatar; As has been said elsewhere (and illustrated by the first video) an older Dr also suggests a big change of direction/pace and as such is a radical step, when the expectation esp of some new fans not familiar with the history of the show is for a floppy haired “pretty boy”. This will be good for the ones who keep watching, LOL

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@htpbdet (and hello back 🙂 ) The “ickiness” factor goes away for me so long as it’s not Matt or a same-ish-age-as-Clara Dr who is the parent. Maybe this is where HurtDr comes in…?  Maybe this is what he did that wasn’t in the Name of the Dr (ie slept with River to get some peace and sanity! )

I’ve not been mad keen on the EVERYthing leads back to Amy thing, and I wasn’t at all keen on Clara as Doctor’s daughter idea before but I could see it working for me now.

Off to do some work and then ponder in more detail.

Btw haven’t had a chance to catch up yet on the Next Dr discussions (sorry)  – are you excited about Capaldi potential?

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@fatmaninabox @blenkinsopthebrave @janetteb @brynwe

That is a really intriguing theory. It also potentially ties in with the theory of going back to the beginning in some ways. I agree with those who think the ganger bit is unnecessary – it works with just the premise that Clara is Dr & River’s daughter. It has the added benefit of conjuring a picture of asexual Dr ARSE fans having mass apoplexy 😈

And which Dr’s baby would it be? 11’s? Or could it be 12’s ie Capaldi being a more paternal Dr (see prev discussions re Dr/companion relationship). We don’t know what River is up to or which Doctors she’s seeing in between seeing Matt. There was a lot of discussion at the time (on the Graun blog I think) of IA/DotM re it being just the women who said they felt sick.

In interviews after reveal of River’s parents, Moffat said he’d planned it since Eleventh Hour, and that all similarities between Amy and River were deliberate. (As opposed to the “all Moff’s women are the same” moans). Working on that premise – that Moffat plans much further ahead and writes with more attention to detail than he is often given credit for – who does Clara most resemble…?

For some reason this idea seems to work much  better now, than when it was suggested before. The difference is Capaldi. It didn’t feel right for Clara/Matt to have a daughter/father relationship. It does with PC (especially since we know that they were looking for an older Dr), even though we’ve not seen him yet!  It also explains @bluesqueakpip‘s suspicion that  there’s something odd about Clara as new baby scene. And WHY is Clara the one who was born to save the Dr, why her in particular?

It sets up for the next Doctor to go off travelling with his daughter (like Hartnell with his granddaughter (have to come back to that later)) and a guaranteed change in the Dr/companion dynamic.  It’s a spiral back to something like the beginning but a reinvention as well.  It gives the Dr an actual family (a Moff theme re the redemptive power of family), no longer the lonely guilt ridden Last of the TimeLords.

Is the cot in the TARDIS Clara’s then? Is that why she was allowed to see it? (Clara’s comment on seeing the picture in the Book of the Time War “So that’s who… ” may yet come to be significant)

God bless your insomnia FMiaB!

Oh my giddy aunt!!!!

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@craig LOVE the Capaldi mock-up poster you posted (oops that sounds a bit odd)

And also @jimthefish‘s Daily Record link, nice one

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@whisht – <mops spluttered coffee off screen>

@boeselecta – welcome, look forward to reading your posts

@craig – it’s been an excitable sort of week, life as a mod ain’t easy, but you’re all hugely appreciated (@jimthefish @phaseshift too). Hope Shazz comes back when it’s cooled down a bit.

@brynwe – great idea

PS @function seems to be working fine for me

 

 

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@nick Re fundamental differences in human/TL  DNA – unless of course you go all Ridley Scott Prometheus or Erich Von Daniken and theorise that humans on earth were “seeded” by Time Lords, or are perhaps descended from a bunch of renegade or just adventurous Gallifreyans (non time Lords) who got lost and shipped up on Earth at a crucial time in homo sapiens’ past

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@bluesqueakpip It was actually @miapatrick who first pointed out about PC’s ethnicity (I just developed it a bit). But yes agree with your point

Miapatrick said   “@thommck– it is interesting that people are more bothered about a physically visible age gap than the fact he really is ancient”

I concur completely.

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re @miapatrick‘s comment re lack of backlash re PC’s ethnicity, there has been a notable number of outright ageist comments. Which is part of the reason I love that they’ve gone for someone who is likely to be very different from previous AG Doctors, and who doesn’t conform to the conventional leading man look.  Change, and challenging expectations, is what the programme’s about.

@nick Non-white, non-male will come in due course, when the right actor and script appears. Meanwhile I don’t have a problem with it so long as there is not just genuine colour- (& gender- when they can) blind casting, but that they ensure they go out of their way to encourage actors (and writers) from every background to apply for DW.  And agree, debate over mindless moans every time.

BTW Whoever suggested Eddie Izzard as the Master is a genius!

 

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@miapatrick I’m surprised there hasn’t been a backlash against PC for being Scottish, with accusations of ethnic nepotism being hurled at SM

SM will only be appreciated again when he’s left, as is the way with certain DW fans. The next showrunner will then be immediately accused of “ruining the programme”

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@miapatrick

people seem to love to be disappointed

Don’t they, though!

And thanks for pointing out the misuse of “ethnic”.  It’s becoming a deeply unpleasant term as used by  certain people. PC, like most of us, is a mix of all sorts of different races (a cultural mosaic/mongrel).  Ethnic minority is a relative term in itself eg white causcasians are an  ethnic minority in Africa, in fact probably also globally.

 

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@nick  re the sex genie out the bottle – I really don’t see the problem. It only means that there’s a side to relationships which couldn’t be shown on screen in the 60s, 70s (sex wasn’t invented then haha (just had a chuckle at thought of the formidable Mrs Whitehouse still being around now)) but now can be. It doesn’t mean it has to be, or that it has to be shown all the time.  It’s not “programmed in”, it’s just another option that’s available if the writers want to use it.

On casting – One thing that’s noticeable is that most of the actors who were suggested (except for the clickbait race/gender articles) conformed pretty much to the Tennant/Smith mould, with the occasional ginger thrown in (He’s still not ginger I note – should gingers be worried? Is this discrimination?!). The final choice suggests that the creative team is MUCH more imaginative than the press (yes, well, talk about stating the obv) and the public.  Let’s have a little faith in them!  They will be very clear about the potential PR pitfalls of older Dr/young companion in a family show and will write accordingly.  They also now have an older Dr to write for, which will have an influence on relationships among other things, but is a clear opportunity to shake things up a bit.

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@nick I don’t understand why you’re assuming that the Clara/Capaldi relationship will be problematic. For one thing we have no idea how much of S8 JLC is contracted for. Not sure how much further they can go with her as the Impossible Girl now she knows who she is. For another I think PC’s casting throws up tantalising possiblities for a River return.  If they’re looking at BG Who for influence then multiple companions in the TARDIS was the most common.

PC isn’t accidental casting.  SM was looking for an older Dr, probably even more since he cast Matt last time, so keen to move away from suggestions of a formula. The writers know they are writing for an older Dr. While it’s completely undestandable that any young girl becoming a companion is going to be completely starstruck by the Dr (charismatic hero, bit naughty, flashy transport etc etc) it doesn’t have to last and it doesn’t have to be reciprocated. While  I think it’s clear that the Dr (so far) loves his companions, he’s not “in” love with them.

They’ve done romantic with Rose, unrequited with Martha, “schoolgirl crush” with Amy (which she grows out of as she grows up), bessie mates with Donna. Clara seems to be a mix of crush and mates so far.  Why would we not expect them to shake it all up again with a new combination?

I don’t think we know whether River ages as slowly as the Doctor (or how many regenerations she had before she became Alex Kingston alike)

In LKH Mels said she was a child in NYC before her regeneration. Granted we don’t know how many regenerations she had before she was that child, but it was strongly implied that was her first. From Mels she goes to River then gives her remaining regenerations to the Dr.  She dies in the Library. But she is still much more of an equal to the Dr because she can time travel independently of him and has an understanding of it on a level which is more like his than human. And she’s self-assured, can look after herself (mostly) and isn’t afraid to challenge him.

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@Shazzbot @chickenelly

Apologies for repeating your comments – was busy typing when you were posting.

Thanks everyone for comments on the announcement special prog – think I’ll just stick to the edited highlights!

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@wolfweed  Brilliant cartoon. You are definitely our Finder in Chief!

@blenkinsopthebrave It’s interesting, isn’t it? Also ties in with Sophie Aldred’s interview where she mentions his referencing Hartnell with the hands on the lapels.  Moffat has said in recent interviews that they changed it because they wanted to make it more machine like again, and that it was just a change because they could (Hmmm, yes if you so Mr M!)  @bluesqueakpip‘s back to the start/rebirth (credit @juniperfish also)  theory has moved up my list a bit further (tho still not discounting multiple Doctor arc).  And yes, I agree, interviews with PC and SM suggest they’ve been hugging this secret for a lot longer than a few weeks (as we all suspected). Probably from before they announced the commissioning of  S8.  (Which according to the Moff interview “has an arc”)

@nick Thanks for posting the link to Matt’s appointment. Usual bunch of  “I’ll never watch this programme again” along with “he’s MUCH too young” comments (before he’d even been on screen!)

General thoughts – I don’t care what age PC is, I don’t care what age, gender or no the companions are, so long as they can act and they get good scripts/direction.  Any (small) disappointment about race/gender is well overcome by them resisting any pressure to go for a young Dr again. It strongly suggests a new direction and a long term plan. It keeps Dr Who as  a show that’s prepared to take risks and shake it all up every now and again.  PC isn’t a conventional “pretty boy” but he has a great way of using his eyes. If he inhabits the Doctor fully, the fans will follow (except the ARSE ones of course). But his casting could pull in a wider range of new viewers.

@phaseshift Thanks for the links to previous PC biogs – I just think it’s delightful (and rather wonderful) that DW has been in his life so long, acting out the show as a 9yr old. Shame Barry Letts isn’t still with us, hopefully he already knew the influence the show had on steering the young PC into an acting career.

FFS! John Hurt as the, sorry, a Dr in the 50th and Capaldi taking over the TARDIS keys at Christmas (unless they’re lying and Matt regenerates in the 50th!) – that’s impressive casting. In reply to comments about celebrities – PC might not have been one before Sunday night, but he certainly is now! BUT he’s an actor first, and a versatile one at that.  Hope he’s coping with the onslaught OK.

My only problem with it – looks like we’ve another YEAR to wait till we see him onscreen properly!

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@craignixon Various interviews with Moffat this weekend says they have no idea what his costume will be yet. Of ourse there’s rule no 1…   But I reckon PC was dressed as “actor on appearance duty”

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I really don’t get this “the fangirls won’t go for PC, he’s too old/ugly/etc” He looks great from where I’m sitting

He’s also got a great slightly quirky/enigmatic wizardy-type expression at times.

re bringing in a 2nd companion… why not another girl…? (sure the fanboys wouldn’t object)

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Just found this, doing the rounds – letters page of the Radio Times in 1973. Including a letter from 15yo Peter Capaldi! (OMG he’s a fan as well)

@phaseshift I think you will particularly appreciate

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@phaseshift

Thinking about your earlier comment – the Welsh fans may well be up in arms, but at least they’re fellow celts. 3 Scottish Doctors now – I feel the beginnings of a new theory coming on… 😉

Anyway hope everyone I care about on here is as delighted as I am.

<exits, skipping and squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeing, in somewhat undignified but delighted manner>

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Not much time to look through all the last 4, 5 pages!!! (Will catch up later). Also no time to watch the programme – is it worth half an hour of my life, or skip to the end…? BUT NO TRAILER?? 🙁

I presume we’re all happy…???

I’m really excited, I think he’ll make a great Dr.  Fantastic, versatile actor and in tradition of Troughton and Pertwee in having established career well outwith Dr Who world. And just maybe that’s why he had to be saved at Pompeii, hehe. And going for a much older Dr is exciting too – yah boo sucks to all the people who say it’s becoming “Americanised” (apologies to @Shazzbot and other US fans – shortcut way of ref’ing the convention of “the hero has to be young, good looking and floppy haired”

Also @Shazzbot (and others) – if this means more people going back to check out the brilliant Local Hero (Bill Forsyth much underrated director ), even better.

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@Shazzbot Actually, on second thoughts you’re right. Either @pedant‘s fave – the on-topic troll, or his head’s full of mince. Deprive of the oxygen of tagged replies till he starts making sense.

The whole ethos of Dr Who is about everything changes and there are no rules (either in-show or from outside)

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@Shazzbot

Do all you Scots know each other?

Probably! Or related. Especially the showbiz ones. Craig F is also massive DW fan as you know.

@chickenelly LOL re predictive text… it’s a whole new world of typos and new creations

Re #TwelfthNight – yes we should 🙂

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@drtennant Ooops, by your rules I’m definitely not a fan then – on all 3 counts

<crawls off sadly to put in resignation to this forum before you all throw me off in disgrace *sniffs*>

Only thing I can claim in my defence is having watched most of the shows (except Baker II) since  23-11-63

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@juniperfish

<waves and jumps up and down with excitement>

Welcome back!! Am VERY intermittent at the moment, not going to be able to check TV till after midnight tonight!!! Yikes. Poor you and your tooth (been there, not nice. hope you’ve got strong painkillers… or some decent whisky!)

And welcome back @rob too.

Still missing in action as @blenkinsopthebrave points out are @bobbingbird and @whohar (is that bath not freezing cold by now??). And yes, I reckon multiple Doctors theory could have life for at least a few months yet.

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So @bluesqueakpip – you’re basically saying it’s a choice between Hurt and McGann for the next (ie 12th (or is it 13th!)?) Dr? Or is that for the 50th do you mean.  Either is obv fine by me but I may have to go and lie down shortly just at the thought of it!

Optimism’s great! 😀

@Shazzbot – shouldn’t McGann be better actor than that? Well maybe, but it’s usually different for actors (esp shy ones, which McGann apparently is) when they’re being interviewed as themselves with no script or character to hide behind

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@bluesqueakpip

But will we see the trailer?

Exactly!

It exists therefore it’s our RIGHT to see it! (Be nice though!) Actually this would be the perfect place to show it. (“Trail(er) of a Timelord”??!)

I don’t really mind if they make it cheesy, I can see it working for either an unknown (who needs introducing to the audience) or as a better known actor ( Ta-DAH!). Would’ve been AMAZING if @thommck had been lucky enough to get tickets. Remember discussing it.. Ha! None of us saw through its flimsy disguise! @thommck – If it helps to give you an idea of what the potential demand would be, and hopefully make you feel better, there were 45,000 fans signed up for the London convention presales info newsletter

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@phaseshift and @jimthefish You two better watch out the Topic Nazi!

@craig nice prog about Sylvester (and kudos to Ace beating up a dalek (which begs the question – why don’t more people tackle daleks by just whacking off the eyestalks?!)) ) As someone else said – the way Kate O’Mara takes off Mel completely destroys Bonnie’s characterisation, there’s really no way back for BL after that. (Thank you, thank you Kate!); But isn’t Sylvester just lovely!

interview with McGann (thanks @phaseshift ) is interesting – is he dropping hints when he says about resolving the “Eccleston” issue and emphasising last minute casting?! (And isn’t there something about looking upwards and left when you’re replying to a question suggests you could be lying?! or is it to the right?  He does it a lot when on the subject of what he knows about the anniversary)

Am with @chickenelly

I’ve just watched the first 30 minutes of the McGann movie.  Eee gads it’s dreadful, but oddly I’m enjoying its awfulness as we’ve got AG Who to cling to

I watched it for the first time only a few months ago (it came in the DVD package with Talons) – as you say, it would be too depressing if |Dr Who had ended there.  I think the direction and the script are both just dull film-making-by-numbers for the most part, and we can only hope that any future Dr Who movie maker will see the mistakes made and understand why it’s better not to compromise the key elements that have worked for 50 years.

I think my loudest groan (apart from the half-human thing) was the Frankenstein monster/Terminator scene of crashing down the morgue door. (I confess to shouting “noooooo!” at the screen). Give me an overused sonic any day!  Even given that he’s just regenerated so could have strange powers coursing through him etc, it’s just not Doctor-ish.  The design of the TARDIS was pretty good, the reimagining radical but exciting. And the lighting was nicely dark!

I also thought both McCoy and McGann transcended the plodding script and managed to be convincingly their own Doctors in spite of it.  They are the only reasons for watching, but even they can’t do anything to redeem it as a whole, even in hindsight.  Without them it would be completely unwatchable, whether as a dedicated Whovian or  a neutral.

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ROFL’d at TARDIS translation circuits. Think they should be installed as permanent feature (maybe virus check first tho).  Mighty impressed with our vigilant mods @craig @jimthefish @phaseshift @Shazzbot

@arkleseizure

I’m sure I’ll learn to cope if they unveil a woman on Sunday. But I’ll be gutted for all the boys like me who’ve just been denied their bolt-hole. I’ve moved on and even grown up a bit. But I really worry for them.

That and the rest of your post is quite beautiful. I will now feel really guilty if they’ve cast a woman. (Not that women actors, esp over “a certain age” are spoilt for choice in the type of parts that come their way. The Eastenders episode you mention sounds like a one-off and unusual)

@blenkinsopthebrave – don’t care how the announce it (and less tacky would be good) but am just really excited (and whatever the announcement it doesn’t really knock out the multiple regenerations in 1 series theory – just because they announce 1 doesn’t mean there aren’t others they’re not mentioning! But… but… you are strongly drawing me over to the dark side (ie the spoilers thread!))

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Exciting news about new Dr announcement (LOL at pre-announcement that there will be an announcement announcing THE announcement on Sun) AND we get a snazzy new web makeover to go with it! @craig you are spoiling us (and more mobile friendly as well 🙂 )

For what it’s worth I agree The Next Dr thread just needs a new pic. (@craig – hope you  have a fab weekend)

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<waves hello to everyone>

Very very excited about announcement coming up on Sun.

@htpbdet LOL at your BBC comments on spoilers thread (couldn’t resist a peek – there seemed to be so much going on there!) There’ll be LOTS of people running round the Beeb pretending they’re the ones with the insider goss. Throw lots of names and hints about and maybe they’ll get lucky!

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@htpbdet

please allow @Shazzbot to take your ARSE to the world…

so to speak….

You all have my full permission to legitimise/meme/tweet  whatever ARSE you like.  Tho I resent being attached so closely to them haha); and to be fair @jimthefish came up with the phrase, I only abbrviated 😉

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Love all the recent posts, just managing to do quick daily scan of these (in the name of peace and sanity!), but sorry not much time to comment. (Did have a little window at the weekend and tried to watch McCoy – @craig the link you posted went a bit odd about 1/4 of the way thro and shunted half the picture off the edge of the screen (talk about 1 sided performances, LOL!)). Gone legit and ordered the CD so hopefully will catch up soon.

Meanwhile, a little snippet of news (posted by Nabil so it’s legit) – for all fans of Sil and Big Finish http://www.thetimewarriors.co.uk/blog/?p=16223

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@chickenelly Build your own TARDIS

Nice link, remarkably unpatronising as these things go!  Nice summing up:

It is just like the TV Tardis, whenever and whereever it turns up, lives are profoundly changed, lessons are learned and possibilities are seized.

I’d be even more impressed if someone came up with a working TARDIS engine though!

 

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Big SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE at simultaneous global broadcast.  Can’t wait for the ARSE fans to start moaning about how the UK should get it first and it’s not fair.  Despite fact it will likely be in line for some kind of world record.

@craig

I think some of those, ahem, fronts are part of the costume rather than being real

I can’t tell you how much comfort that phrase gives me, LOL

 

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@Shazzbot @madscientist72

As a result, they’d have disproportionate representation in any pics/vids from the Con.

Haha – disproportionate in many ways!! 😀 (There’s not much you can say about the video without double entendres  taking over. But I was very impressed with the monsters. And the Doctors, for almost looking sane). And you know what guys with vid cams are like

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@jimthefish @htpbdet

That’s an interesting idea re watching just episodes for each.  I take JtF’s point about it not being the same as with the other Doctors, but Hartnell and Troughton are starting with a disadvantage a) for being lo-fi b/w and (more importantly) b) for having a limited choice available. The recons do a good job for what they are, some of them very well, but they don’t show the energy and quirkiness each brought to the role. If you use a recon/animation then you are watching and commenting on that rather than the programme as it was first shown.

I like the idea of levelling the playing field a bit and watching episodes that show them at their best. Again thinking about younger forum members who don’t have the same context  as us veterans to put them in. But I’m also happy to revisit the Krotons (or Tomb). Or whatever the concensus is.

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@fatmaninabox LOL @ FAN(tasists) The downside of the web, glad you made it to the relative safety of this space.

Oh, I’m completely with you on it’s STILL MONTHS till November and I’ve been known to have a rant or two about the lack of things so far this year (see @wolfweed‘s Celebration blog). But for now I’m being positive, and hoping for a lot more stuff (on TV) from Sept on. I also think it’s important to think of the BBC and the DW production team as separate, tho connected, entities (like stern parents and brilliant but slightly wayward child), re pointing fingers.

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@thommmck Grab your 11 yo, some glue and some paint (or whatever it takes to make a costume!) and get down there, LOL. The official Dr Who site has masks you can download and print out if that helps. Although he may want his face showing if he’s going ot be on TV; but it’d be a good place to start for inspiration. (Re the video in my last post – some serious cosplay going on there, but the Doctor can be done really simply, and is still instantly recognisable)

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Further to was it worth doing SD Comic Con discussions (assuming the beneefit is raising profile etc), this is a video clip by SDCC of “the best cosplayers over the weekend” which includes 3 Doctors at 2.14 (-2.15, LOL). And has been viewed over 400,000 times. I recommend turning down the sound, but some of the costumes are seriously impressive. And will no doubt keep the macho boys (and some of the girls) amongst us happy 😉

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@Shazzbot

But someone has to keep us in line – and you do it so nicely <grabs shovel to dig even deeper hole for self> (The other mods are just sooo snarky hehe)

PS Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Not the milky tea! 😉

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@Shazzbot – OK, I second your (self)nomination to be both Topic AND Grammar Dalek (TGD for short) 😉

I know we wibbley-wobbley off-topic sometimes, but we usually come back to it sooner or later (esp with TGD on our tails, LOL). Otherwise we’d never get to the glorious discussions of Isis myths, creationism, predestination, mind-melting multiverses and 7000 year old popcorn.

PS We need an emoticon for “tugs forelock and prostrates self in obsequious manner before incurring the wrath of the Rani (aka TGD)” 😉

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